We haven't had real inflation in decades. The Fed keeps promising us they can financially engineer us out of inflation and debt, but without inflation, the $28trillion in debt and rising will keep increasing.
I may be the contrarian, but so long as we can keep the necessities somewhat sheltered from inflation, I don't see inflation in consumer goods to be a bad thing for a country addicted to consumerism, cheap debt and spending. We are not a country of savers, but with higher inflation comes higher interest rates, which is great for savers and encouraging individuals to be more fiscally responsible and to change financial behaviorism. We can't keep spending our money on cheap crap that we don't need, and then relying on taxpayer dollars in retirement because the majority of Americans don't save or plan for the future. The average person, corporation and the nation have far too much debt, and yet we keep spending, as if more reckless spending and living beyond the means will dig us out of this crater.
Savers are bad for the short-term economy, but better for the long-term economy because they won't need to rely upon taxpayer dollars, which will reduce government spending and debt. We need to be more thoughtful of the ROI of our spending. Taxes spent to educate a populace that will have better jobs and improve the economy is more valuable than keeping old sick people who never took care of their health alive for 5 more years (looking like a vegetable in a nursing home). I'm not saying to throw grandma under the bus, but we HAVE to be forced to think about the long-term impacts of our choices, from our spending, to our decisions around our health and diet, to self-improvement and reskilling/upskilling.
Our current path of mindless spending and expecting others/the health insurers/the government to rescue us will lead us to bankruptcy, both economically and socially. This isn't political; this is a much more macro view that supersedes politics, infighting, division and distraction.